Among the American president's most important duties are the ones he fulfills as commander-in-chief of the US military.
The president can't declare war without the approval of Congress, but he still wields a tremendous amount of power over the largest and most powerful armed forces in the history of the world.
Previously, we asked a very important political question:
Will Donald Trump run for President in 2024?
Monday marked a rather monumental day in the life of the American public.
In the span of just a few hours, the FDA-approved Covid-19 vaccine started to be administered to frontline healthcare workers...
It started on November 3.
It ended, for most sane-minded individuals, on November 7, when Joe Biden crossed the 270-electoral college vote threshold.
Donald Trump is offiicially protesting the Presidential election.
The problem for this one-term Commander-in-Chief is that he cannot officially file any sort of protest over the Presidential election.
It has come to this for soon-to-be-former President Donald Trump:
He now believes that the Supreme Court, whose latest three judges he and his very conservative friends nominated for their positions, is out to get him.
Thirty-eight days.
That's how long it's been since Election Day 2020, a time when millions of Americans went to bed without any clear idea of who would be sworn in as president on January 20.
No matter what Donald Trump says in public... no matter what far too many members of the Republican Party are also saying in public... this is a fact:
Donald Trump will leave office on January 20, 2021.
Earlier today, we reported that Ivanka Trump is planning to flee D.C. the moment Joe Biden is sworn in as president.
Her reasons for doing so seem obvious, of course.
Presidential pardons are powerful things.
Like executive orders, they enable a sitting president to take swift and decisive action without congressional approval -- and there have been times when those actions altered the course of history.
Back in March, when we all naively thought the pandemic lockdown would last 2-3 weeks, a quaint little documentary came out on Netflix.
It was a time-honored tale of animal abuse and murder for hire plots, and it captured the hearts and minds of a newly-quarantined nation.
When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped down from their roles as senior members of the royal family, there was much speculation as to what the future might hold for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
It's been almost a month since Election Day 2020, and believe it or not, the outcome of the vote is still being debated.
Of course, it's important to note that the debate takes place almost entirely in President Trump's head.
Joe Biden has begun selecting White House staff and making cabinet appointments, and all mainstream media outlets -- including the ones that have historically been most sympathetic to President Trump -- are now referring to Biden as the president-elect.
You know what they say about actions versus words, right?
According to the old adage, the former speak a lot louder than the latter.
It has come to this for Donald Trump:
With Michigan and Georgia both certifying their election results this week... with Rudy Giuliani leading a legal effort that looks like THIS and which keeps losing in court... and with many Republicans now acknowledging that Joe Biden won the 2020 election...
We knew going into this election that this is no typical year -- and no typical president.
We knew that in 2020, Election Day would likely drag on into an election week -- and possibly even an election month.
Well, the votes have been counted, and the touch screen red and blue maps have been stashed back in John King's garage for the next four years, but we're still not quite sure who will be sworn in as president on January 20.
Make no mistake, Joe Biden won the election, and in any normal year, his opponent would have conceded by now.
The peaceful transfer of power from one presidential administration to the next is one of the hallmarks of American democracy.
But like so many norms that aren't explicitly enshrined in the Constitution, it's not something that Donald Trump appears to have much interest in.
Finally.
Finally, at long last, after mounting evidence that Donald Trump really is attempting a coup on American soil, a prominent member of the Republican party has spoken out against him.
As if 2020 hasn't been a weird enough year, we're now dealing with the disorienting fact that it's Thanksgiving next week, and we're still talking about the presidential election.
In case you've fallen behind on the latest season of America: The Absurdly Over-the-Top Soap Opera, Donald Trump has lost the election, but like the lush head of hair he enjoyed in the early '80s, he refuses to accept that his presidency is a thing of the past.
In the four years since he narrowly defeated Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College to become President of the United States, Donald Trump has repeatedly used words like "landslide" describe his victory.
Joe Biden will be the next President of the United States.
No matter what dangerous nonsense Donald Trump rattles on about via Twitter, this is not a question.
